Scripture of the Day
Luke 14:8-10 (NIV)
“Seating Chart”
“When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited. If so, the host invited both of you will come and say to you, “Give this man your seat.” Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place. But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, “Friend, move up to a better place.” Then you will be honored in the presence of all your fellow guests.
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In life we want to be at the very top, as if being in a lower position is negative! Think of the seating chart at a professional sporting event! There are the seats at the very top! That’s where most of us live! We can only afford the top seats (nose bleed section). We are at the very top, yet it is hard to see what is going on! In fact, some of us will complain about being on the top! Then there are those seats all the way down at the bottom. No one can just go down to the bottom and pick their own seat. These court-side seats are assigned. Now, court-side seats will put you all the way at the bottom . . . where all the action is happening! It’s a possibility that you may get hurt if the action falls into your seat, but you don’t mind . . . you paid extra for that! Now . . . if someone came all the way to the nose bleed section and offered you a seat down at the very bottom . . . would you decline the court-side seat and say, “No thank you, I will stay up here” or would you accept . . . and go down where all the action is! Trust me . . . if you say no, your friend will accept the place of honor!
With GOD, some of the lowest points in our lives . . . places us at the very top! And sometimes at our highest points in life . . . we find ourselves at our lowest! When you think you should be seated in the place of honor . . . wait for GOD to show you the seating chart! Anytime I attend a meeting, I always take a seat up against the wall, until invited to the table! Remember, when the host invites you in . . . you are welcomed!
Love Sincerely,
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